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Greenhouse Gases
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06.28.2024
Each year, some 40 billion tonnes of CO₂, one of the main greenhouse gases, are released into the atmosphere. A significant proportion of these is captured by the oceans, vegetation and the soil....
04.18.2024
On our planet, everything is interconnected, from terrestrial and marine ecosystems and biodiversity to ice sheets, rivers and oceans. But a recent report reveals that the dynamics of these different...
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04.28.2023
Rounding off eight years of work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published its sixth Synthesis Report. The CNRS research professor Gerhard Krinner, who coordinated part of it...
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03.23.2023
A pioneer of glaciology, Claude Lorius, winner of the CNRS gold medal in 2002, died on 21 March. This exceptional researcher discovered that the record of Earth's past climate is locked up in...
03.19.2023
On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the Synthesis Report of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report, the science historian Hélène Guillemot explains how knowledge on climate change has...
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01.17.2023
Whatever the time of year, our planet is increasingly impacted by extreme weather events, such as devastating floods and storms, heat waves, and cold spells. But how can we be sure that climate...